Magnet Science & Technology

Series Connected Hybrid for the MagLab

The MagLab has successfully tested the 36 tesla SCH magnet, slated to be available for users in 2017.

Our Capabilities

We are the world leader in building resistive, high-temperature superconducting, hybrid and cable-in-conduit magnets.

Our Facilities

We do microanalysis, components testing and mechanical and physical properties testing.

Team 32 T

Pioneering a new superconducting tape, the lab is buidling an all-superconducting magnet that will shatter all previous records.

The Platypus Project

This high-field, high-homogeneity demonstration magnet using Bi-2212 round wire could be the first mammal in the age of NMR dinosaurs.

The MS&T Division is a world leader in building high-field magnet systems for scientific exploration in the biosciences, chemistry, materials science, condensed matter physics and mass spectrometry. Over the last two decades the division has developed more than 20 magnet systems and has held numerous world records, including our 45 tesla hybrid magnet and our 900 MHz NMR magnet.

The division builds systems for the MagLab and works with industry to develop the technology to improve high-field magnet manufacturing capabilities. The division's highly experienced engineers push the state of the art beyond what is currently available in high field magnet systems through research and development. The division also contracts with other institutions to design one-of-a-kind magnet systems; MagLab technology has been adopted by some 20 labs worldwide.

Current Magnet Projects

When this ambitious project is completed in 2017, the strongest superconducting magnet on the planet will be housed at the MagLab. At 32 tesla, it will be a whopping 8.5 tesla stronger than the current record &mash; a giant leap in a technology that, since the 1960s, has seen only baby steps of 0.5 to 1 tesla.

The MagLab is nearing completion of a 36 tesla series connected hybrid (SCH) magnet that will break the record for field homogeneity, enable new science with a magnetic field that is both very high and very stable, and operate much more cheaply than comparable magnets.

At 25 tesla, this magnet, built for the Helmholtz Centre Berlin, is the strongest magnet of its kind in the world. Its field is 47 percent stronger than that of the previous record-holder, and it offers twice as much scattering angle as other magnets available for neutron scattering.

Latest Science Highlight

MagLab scientists and engineers have developed a special coating on Bi-2212 superconducting wire for electrical insulation in superconducting magnets that will enable the wire to be used in ultra-high field nuclear magnetic resonance magnets.